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pendent

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛndənt/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted deennptStarts with PEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. held from above and hanging down

Word origin

From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.

Used in a sentence

  • Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
  • Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
  • The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]

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